Fields of Play : : An Ethnography of Children's Sports / / Noel Dyck.
Thousands of children participate in community sports every year, enjoying recreation time with their peers, getting healthy exercise, and learning a variety of personal and group skills. At the same time, children's sports are not without controversy: parents can be overly invested in their ch...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Chapter One. ENCOUNTERING THE FIELDS OF PLAY
- Chapter Two. "WHAT KIDS REALLY NEED": THE SYSTEMATIZING OF SPORT IN CANADA
- Chapter Three. BECOMING SPORT PARENTS
- Chapter Four. ORGANIZING AND COACHING COMMUNITY SPORTS
- Chapter Five. BECOMING ATHLETES AND PLAYERS
- Chapter Six. PULLING TOGETHER AND APART IN COMMUNITY SPORTS
- Chapter Seven. SPORTING DREAMS
- Chapter Eight. HOW THE GAME IS PLAYED
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX